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• Black-owned bookstores rush to meet unprecedented demand

  24-06-2020 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Frugal Bookstore, the only Black-owned bookstore in Boston, said that they've received more than 20,000 orders in the past month.
  
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• Ahmaud Arbery: grand jury indicts three men in murder case

  24-06-2020 23:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The killing of a young black man who was jogging in a Georgia town when he was shot dead has become a part of national debate A grand jury has returned indictments on the three suspects in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was accosted and shot dead as he went for a jog in a Georgia town, US media has reported.The killing sparked widespread outrage and has since become a key part of an intense national debate around racism and police killings of Black people in America. Continue
  
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• Senate Democrats block movement on Republican policing bill in Wednesday vote

  24-06-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have blocked the Senate from moving forward on a Republican policing bill that they argued did not go far enough.
  
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• Donald Trump claims protesters want to pull down statues of Jesus – video

  24-06-2020 23:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Donald Trump has suggested Black Lives Matters protesters want to pull down statues of Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Speaking at a press conference with the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, Trump reiterated his desire to sign an executive order making vandalising monuments punishable with up to 10 years in prisonSenate Democrats block Republican police reform bill – live Continue reading...
  
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• U.S. moves to protect lobster industry, threatens tariffs on China

  24-06-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum aimed at protecting American lobster fishermen who have found export markets drying up, a White House adviser dubbed the "lobster king" said on Wednesday, adding China could face new tariffs."If those purchase commitments are not met, the United States Trade Representative has been directed to use his discretion to impose ... reciprocal tariffs on the China seafood industry," trade adviser Peter Navarro told reporters.In the memorandum, Trump also
  
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• 'The explosion has to slow down': Texas hospitals on edge as coronavirus cases surge

  24-06-2020 23:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  "It’s not like I can triple my capacity overnight because we have a lot of other patients,” said a hospital administrator in Houston.
  
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• Roommate named person of interest in disappearance of Oklahoma woman

  24-06-2020 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma has named Kore Bommeli a person of interest in the March 27, 2020 disappearance of her roommate, 53-year-old Talina Galloway. The last post on Talina’s Facebook page, however, was dated April 7. The post stated that Talina that she believed she had coronavirus but did not want to go to the hospital. Her purse and wallet were left at home. Her car was still in the driveway. The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
  
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• California just reported a record number of new coronavirus cases — and it could roll back its reopening if the surge continues

  24-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We are still in the first wave," Gov. Gavin Newsom said. "We are not in the second wave. This is still the first wave."
  
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• Tanzanite: Tanzanian miner becomes overnight millionaire

  24-06-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saniniu Laizer sold two Tanzanite stones, with a combined weight of 15kg, for £2.4m.
  
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• Targeted sculptures linked to Wisconsin, Civil War history

  24-06-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters have defaced and torn down statues of historic figures during recent demonstrations against racial injustice in cities across the nation.Most of those pieces have explicit ties to colonialism, slavery and the Confederacy, including imagery of Christopher Columbus and former U.S. presidents who owned slaves.In Madison, Wisconsin, protesters tore down two sculptureswith no obvious links to that history: one depicting an abolitionist Union military official and another of a female form r
  
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• US states reimpose virus measures as cases spike

  24-06-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With coronavirus cases surging across the US South and West, officials are once again imposing tough measures, from stay-at-home advice in worst-hit states to quarantines to protect recovering areas like New York.Three northeastern states that made progress beating back the pandemic -- New York, New Jersey and Connecticut -- on Wednesday urged visitors arriving from US hotspots to quarantine themselves.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the advisory applied to visitors from Alabama, Arkansas, A
  
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• Coronavirus: New York imposes quarantine on nine US states

  24-06-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It comes as a US university predicts 180,000 US deaths from the virus by October.
  
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• An off-duty cop says a tampon was put in his Target Starbucks Frappuccino. Target denies it.

  24-06-2020 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We have reviewed video footage and have not found any suspicious behavior," a spokeswoman for Target said.
  
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• Fact check: Officer in Breonna Taylor killing not shot by friendly fire

  24-06-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The claim that a Louisville officer was hurt by friendly fire at Breonna Taylor's apartment is false.
  
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• Trump's first foreign visitor amid pandemic is Poland's nationalist president

  24-06-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  After months without a visitor from overseas, President Donald Trump welcomed Poland's President to the White House on Wednesday in another attempt to demonstrate his vision -- refuted by reality -- that coronavirus is waning.
  
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• Tesla ranks dead last in latest auto quality survey

  24-06-2020 23:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tesla owners reported an average of 250 problems per 100 vehicles.
  
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• Court halts Mexico's 'Maya Train' over indigenous health rights

  24-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Mexican court has ordered the suspension of work on the "Maya Train," a controversial railroad through Mayan lands in the country's southeast, after an indigenous community filed an injunction.The $6.2 billion rail link is a pet project of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said Wednesday that while the court challenge had "political overtones," his government would comply with the ruling.The "Maya Train" is meant to link Caribbean resorts such as Cancun and Playa del Carmen wi
  
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• A House Judiciary Committee hearing on Barr and the DOJ devolved into a partisan screaming match

  24-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Justice Department officials testified that Attorney General William Barr interfered in politically charged cases for personal reasons.
  
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• Britain's Prince William visits Oxford COVID-19 vaccine developers

  24-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain's Prince William on Wednesday visited the Oxford-based scientists who are working to develop a viable vaccine for COVID-19 as well as trial participants who are helping to determine whether or not it works.The vaccine, originally known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, was originally developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, and they are now working with AstraZeneca on development and production.It is already in human trials, with preliminary trials on pigs and monkeys showing some encourag
  
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• Europe's travel ban on Americans could be a sign of disastrous things to come for US airlines

  24-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union's ban on American travelers could mean business and international travel take longer to recover — a bad sign for airlines.
  
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• A European travel ban on Americans could be a sign of disastrous things to come for US airlines

  24-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union's reported plans to restrict travel from the US would hurt demand for travel and most likely extend the recovery time for airlines.
  
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• New maps offer detailed look at 'lost' continent of Zealandia

  24-06-2020 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  The maps show how volcanism and tectonic motion have shaped the submerged landmass over millions of years.
  
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• 5,000 Years Later, Scientists Find a New Mystery Near Stonehenge

  24-06-2020 23:01 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The new find encircles the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments near Stonehenge.
  
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• Kentucky Democrats begin wait for Senate election results

  24-06-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky's Democratic Senate primary went into overtime Wednesday as the candidates anxiously awaited the counting of absentee ballots to determine who will advance to challenge Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the fall campaign.After months of voter outreach amid the coronavirus pandemic, the campaigns for Amy McGrath and Charles Booker hunkered down to await their electoral fate.“It’s almost like we’re at 7:30 on election night," longtime Kentucky political comme
  
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• White men in car chased down Black teens on bikes, police say

  24-06-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We got to stand together because this could have been very different; I could have woke up on Sunday morning hearing" that my child is dead, the mother of one of the teens said.
  
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• Medical oxygen scarce in world's poorest regions during coronavirus pandemic

  24-06-2020 22:54 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As the coronavirus spreads, soaring demand for oxygen is bringing out a stark global truth: Even the right to breathe depends on money. In much of the world, oxygen is expensive and hard to get — a basic marker of inequality both between and within countries.
  
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• Black man suing police department for $700,000 over mistaken identity arrest that left him with broken arm

  24-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 46-year-old black man in Georgia who claims police officers used excessive force while wrongfully arresting him has sued the Valdosta Police Department.Antonio Arnelo Smith is suing the department for $700,000 after a city police officer grappled him from behind and slammed him to the ground. Officers said they were "investigating suspicious activity" and mistook Mr Smith as a suspect.
  
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• California voters to decide fate of affirmative action ban

  24-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California's 1996 ban on affirmative action policies will be tested at ballot box in November as voters will decide whether governments and public colleges and universities can consider race in their hiring and admissions decisions — all against the backdrop of a presidential election and cultural upheaval over racial injustice.California has banned affirmative action since 1996, when 55% of voters approved a constitutional amendment that made it illegal to give preferential treatment base
  
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• Race car driver posthumously named fastest woman on Earth for attempt that killed her

  24-06-2020 22:34 via cnn.com
  
  She's officially the fastest woman on Earth.
  
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• Moroccan police summon journalist days after Israeli spyware allegations

  24-06-2020 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Omar Radi says police questioning ‘clearly linked’ to Amnesty’s claim he was targeted by NSO Group spywareA Moroccan journalist has been summoned to the police just days after an investigation by Amnesty alleged that he had been repeatedly targeted with spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group.Omar Radi, an investigative reporter who has been critical of Morocco’s human rights record, was ordered to appear before the National Brigade of Judicial Police. Continue reading..
  
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• 'He was going to burn alive': Bystander describes intense rescue caught on video

  24-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  A bystander and a sheriff's deputy in California pulled a man out of a burning truck to safety.
  
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• Calling all cops! Your food isn't being poisoned by anyone, despite your claims | Poppy Noor

  24-06-2020 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers’ claims of Shake Shack ‘bleach poisoning’ were formally investigated and quickly dismissed by the NYPD’s own chief of detectives while Starbucks has debunked ‘tampongate’Some good news, finally, for cops: you can go back to eating at Shake Shack without worry.Last week, after drinking some weird tasting shakes, three New York officers alleged they had been poisoned with bleach. The claims were formally investigated and quickly dismissed by the NYPD&rs
  
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• Calling all cops! Your food isn't being poisoned by anyone, despite your claims

  24-06-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officers’ claims of Shake Shack ‘bleach poisoning’ were formally investigated and quickly dismissed by the NYPD’s own chief of detectives while Starbucks has debunked ‘tampongate’Some good news, finally, for cops: you can go back to eating at Shake Shack without worry.Last week, after drinking some weird tasting shakes, three New York officers alleged they had been poisoned with bleach. The claims were formally investigated and quickly dismissed by the NYPD&rs
  
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• Trump's latest moves aren't exactly a winning economic -- or reelection -- strategy

  24-06-2020 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's latest economic policies are the opposite of the emergency aid that Corporate America and Wall Street are clamoring for.
  
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• Faith and face masks are now inherently political. Here's how that happened.

  24-06-2020 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Despite the Bible's invitation to love one's neighbor, not wearing face masks to protect said neighbors is all the rage in certain churches. But why?
  
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• Senate Democrats block GOP policing bill, calling it 'irrevocably flawed' and 'partisan'

  24-06-2020 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats want the bill to include bans on chokeholds and "no-knock" search warrants and to address qualified immunity, which shields police officers from lawsuits.
  
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• Tesla owners saw the most issues with their cars out of any other brand studied by J.D. Power

  24-06-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tesla owner's problems mostly stem from build quality issues, like paint defects, poorly fitting body panels, excessive wind noise, and squeaks and rattles.
  
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• Column: Trump was in full demagogue mode on Tuesday. It was terrifying

  24-06-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Laying out his campaign themes, Trump offered a dystopian vision of a high-stakes struggle between Republicans and a totalitarian left.
  
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• Three men indicted in death of Ahmaud Arbery

  24-06-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The three men accused in the February 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury, a district attorney said.
  
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• Mike Huckabee slams Shaun King for saying statues of Jesus Christ are 'form of white supremacy'

  24-06-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former governor of Arkansas and ordained minister, Mike Huckabee, reacts to a Black Lives Matter activist's call to take down all images of "white" Jesus.
  
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• Federal judge pans Trump order used to expel migrants at border

  24-06-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Citing a CDC order, border officials have expelled tens of thousands of migrants, including children and many seeking asylum.
  
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• 3 men indicted in death of Ahmaud Arbery

  24-06-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The three men accused in the February 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury, a district attorney said.
  
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• Philadelphia To Seek Removal Of Christopher Columbus Statue At Marconi Plaza

  24-06-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mayor Jim Kenney announced Wednesday the city will ask the Art Commission to approve the removal of the statue on July 22.
  
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• Giant dust plume crosses the Atlantic from Sahara Desert

  24-06-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A dust plume from the Sahara Desert traveled across the Atlantic and is darkening skies in the Caribbean. One model predicts it will reach the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic US.
  
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• A huge dust plume from the Sahara Desert is closing in on the US

  24-06-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A dust plume from the Sahara Desert traveled across the Atlantic and is darkening skies in the Caribbean. One model predicts it will reach the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic US.
  
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• A huge dust plume from the Sahara Desert has crossed the Atlantic and is closing in on the US

  24-06-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A dust plume from the Sahara Desert traveled across the Atlantic and is darkening skies in the Caribbean. One model predicts it will reach the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic US.
  
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• Schools to scrap social distancing in September

  24-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Social distancing will not be applied in schools and "bubbles" will be expanded to enable all pupils to return to their classes full-time in September, the Government will announce next week. Pupils will not be expected to keep two metres or even one metre apart at all times while in the school building, The Telegraph understands. Instead, schools will be asked to focus on limiting the extent to which children mix outside of their class or year group and on implementing strict hygiene regimes. T
  
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• Jim Edmonds says marriage to Meghan King was 'loveless' and 'abusive'

  24-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Edmonds opened up about his past marriage in a tribute to girlfriend Kortnie O’Connor.
  
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• Novak Djokovic's folly is a lesson to the world

  24-06-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  "From day one of the organization of the Adria Tour, we've been following the rules and the measures that have been regulated by government institutions and health public institutions," Novak Djokovic said last week before the Croatia leg of Adria, a tennis tournament he'd organized for charity. "We've been through all these processes and the result of it all was amazing."
  
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• 'Why I volunteered for coronavirus vaccine trial'

  24-06-2020 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kathy is one of about 300 people who will be immunised to help find a vaccine for Covid-19.
  
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